Negative practice-value correlations in the GLOBE data: Unexpected findings, questionnaire limitations and research directions

Journal of International Business Studies

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1330-1338

  Taras, Vas ^a   Steel, Piers ^b   Kirkman, Bradley L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cross cultural research measurement issues; GLOBE; Hofstede

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957983673     PISSN: 00472506     EISSN: 14786990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jibs.2010.30     Document Type: Review

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